Revolutionary Generation

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing tells a story about a question she had in her mind:

“Why does wh!te supremacy exist?”

“You don’t need to know, Frances! That’s just the way it is.”

But she couldn’t just let that question go.

She says she kept that question in her Brain Computer and put it on simmer. That she knew the brain will search and correlate and correct and recorrect until it finds the answer.

Then one day, as she was doing the dishes, the answer came.

“They have Fear of a Black Planet.” 🧬 🌎

Her lectures on this topic inspired many hiphop and rap artists including the legendary groundbreaking album Fear Of A Black Planet by Public Enemy 🖤

Discrimination, injustice, racial dignity are just some of the topics explored by these type of artists. These topics are just as alive today as they were 40 years ago when this style of rap was emerging.

Dr. Welsing’s lectures is just one example of the power of academia influencing lyricism, music and culture and the origins of Black Power in rap.

With the upcoming UFC at the White House event sounding the 6th trumpet of the Idiocracy Prophecy, I thought a little dive on HipHop culture and academia would be a refreshing change. If only for a moment.